Tosin Akibu has over 15 years’ experience designing and implementing development programs. She trains, mentors, engages in story-telling to enhance positive shift in perception and influence policy change.  She is an ardent social inclusion enthusiast and speaks on gender, gender equality, GBV, social and behavior change as well as designing interventions for the hard-to-reach, neglected and under-served. She was a speaker on different panels at Women Deliver in 2019. She is a entero-cutaneous and entero-uterine fistula survivor and seeks to support other women experiencing fistula in Nigeria.

Tosin has a BA in English with a focus on language and communication. She also has a master’s in public health (Social and Behaviour Change Communications) from Wits University in South Africa. An alumna of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Fall Institute with a certificate of participation in health policy and management. She has certificates in gender equality, gender in development, gender in energy, gender response in humanitarian settings, and gender integration, from various institutions. She has a certificate in Leadership & Management from Washington University and a certificate in Communication for development (C4D) from UNICEF awarded by Wits and Ohio Universities.